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To: Gus who wrote (4187)	4/27/2000 3:20:00 AM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5195

On a more constructive note, here's an update from Corpgold regarding IEEE 802.16, the Working Group on Broadband Wireless Access Standards. "...The mission of Working Group 802.16 is "to develop standards and recommended practices to support the development and deployment of fixed broadband wireless access systems." 802.16 is a unit of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee, the premier transnational forum for wireless networking standardization and the source of Ethernet standards....." grouper.ieee.org Brian Kiernan of IDC was appointed to chair the Sub10 Study Group of IEEE 802.16 on the basis of IDC's experience with WLL (Wireless Local Loop or fixed wireless) networks in 20 countries. One unconfirmed estimate out there is that IDC's Ultraphone has something like 1.5 to 2.0 million subscribers in the rural areas of countries as diverse as the USA (Iowa?) and Namibia. Ultraphone is the fixed wireless TDMA system that IDC started developing in the mid-80s. Truelink is the fixed wireless BCDMA system that IDC developed in conjunction with Siemens, Samsung and Alcatel from 1996 to 1998 before the consortium disbanded as IMT-2000 came closer to fruition. Along the way, IDC and LSI collaborated on the 1st generation SoC for Ultraphone (TDMA) and IDC and Texas Instruments collaborated on the 2nd generation SoC for Truelink (BCDMA) which has been field tested successfully in 5 countries. IDC and Nokia signed a $70 million deal in February, 1999 to develop the TDD version of WCDMA using a lot of the elements of BCDMA and news of progress of this deal has been scarce; although, it is widely assumed that this effort is plugged in deeply into many of the WCDMA trials going on around the world. BCDMA is IDC's trademarked version of broadband CDMA that builds heavily on the work of Donald L. Schilling whose paper trail on spread spectrum dates back to 1960 and whose patent trail at his SCS group of companies preceded Qualcomm's narrowband patents and his patent production still continues at Golden Bridge. Interestingly enough, ATT (with Bell Labs) was an early licensee of IDC's TDMA and CDMA patents in 1994 and ATT (without Bell Labs) was also the first licensee of Golden Bridge in 1999. grouper.ieee.org IEEE 802.16's Sub10 Study Group was approved by 802.16 on 11 November 1999 at the Closing Plenary Meeting of Session #4. The Study Group was formally created later that evening by the Executive Committee of the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee. The Study Group's formal charter was "to investigate establishing air interface specifications for fixed point to multi-point Broadband Wireless Access systems operating in frequency bands below 10 GHz." The group looked at community interest, appropriate frequency bands, and the relationship to existing standards efforts. It then drafted PAR 802.16.3, which was approved by IEEE 802.16 on 8 March and then by the IEEE 802 Executive Committee on 9 March 2000. The group met on 10-11 January, 2000 and on 6-8 March 2000. It expired on 9 March 2000. Brian Kiernan, Senior Vice President of InterDigital Communications Corp., Chaired the Study Group. He was nominated by the 802.16 Chair and approved by the 802.16 membership on 11 November 1999 .